Experience and potential

of Wroclaw University of Technology

in clean coal technology

Meeting: Polskiego Konsorcjum „Czyste Technologie Węglowe” 10 VII 2009, AGH, Kraków

Prof. dr hab. inż. Halina KRUCZEK, pełnomocnik JM Rektora

Content

• Wrocław University of Technology - potential

• Research and innovation

• Experience and potential

• Education

• Summary

Wrocław University of Technology

Campus

Facts an figures

• 23 fields of study and 115 specialisations

• 12 Faculties

• Number of bsc and msc students - 32 173

• Phd students – 1 047

• Number of academic staff – 2 008– Full professors – 198

– Assistant professors – 255

– Adiunkt (with doctoral degree) – 957

– Assistants – 477

• Administration staff – 2 145

• The campus – 94 ha, 286 buildings

• Income– Government grants for teaching and research

activities

– Fees and research contracts

– Industrial projects, European Projects

The main faculties topic of production of

energy deal with

Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering

• Fields of study:– Mechanical Engineering and

Machine Building

– Power Engineering

– Chemical Engineering

• Energy laboratory

Faculty of Chemistry Biotechnology– Chemistry

– Chemical and Process Engineering

– Materials Engineering

– Chemical Technology

Faculty of Environmental Engineering

• Fields of study:– Environmental Engineering

– Environmental ProtectionFaculty of Electrical Engineering – Control Engineering and

Robotics

– Electrical Engineering

Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology – Mining and Geology

Faculty of Mechanical EngineeringControl Engineering and Robotics – Mechanical Engineering and

Machine Buiding

– Transport

– Management and Manufacturing Engineering

– Mechatronics

Centres and laboratories

• Centres for research:

– Lower Silesia Centre of Advanced Technologies,

– Centre for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology,

– The Centre of Biomonitoring, Biotechnology and Protection of Lower Silesia Ecosystems,

– Biomedical Engineering Centre.

• Commercialisation of the research results:

– TUDAG Dresden,

– Wrocław Technology Park,

– Wrocław Centre for Technology Transfer

• Centres for Excellence

– Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Systems,

– Centre for Electromagnetic Compatibility, Devices, Systems and Instalations,

– Centre for Materials Recycling,

• Wrocław Centre for Networking and Supercomputing,

• Certified laboratories

– Electromagnetic Compatibility,

– Electromagnetic Field Standards and Metrology,

– Conversion Energy

– Testing Laboratory of Building Engineering,

– Testing of Small Power Electrical Machines,

– Electromagnetic Compatibility in Electroenergetics.

Research and innovation

• Cluster:

– Cluster for Power Generation And Energy Utilization In

Mega- And Nano-scale

– Scientific net:

• CO2 NET; Zero-emission coal combustion

• Partners : (46 including 5 universities) ex. Alstom , BP,

Chevron, Enel-Italy, RWE Power Germany, StatoilHydro,

Vatenfall Sweden, WUT,…

CLUSTER at Wrocław University

Technology: Power Generation and Energy Utilization for Mega- and Nano-scale

Topics-activities

• System the sustainable energy

• Clean and high effectivity energy production

from RES and coal * oxy, biofuels, biomass

raw and after chemical-thermal processing

focus on medium and micro power utility

• Hydrogen Oriented Gasification of Coal for

Europe

• Modeling of energy production systems

4 universities, 2 research institutes,Local authorities

17 industry partners (PPlants, CHP-s …)

www.klaster-energia.wroc.pl

prof.PWr Halina Kruczek , head of steering

committee, e-mail:hkruczek@pwr.wroc.pl

Tel/fax:071/3203942

Wroclaw University of Technology competences in

energy generation and processing – over 150 staff

members involved in:

• Basic thermodynamic and fluid mechanics problems in power generation

• Cogeneration and trigeneration

• Combustion including biomass co-combustioin

• Power plant materials, corrosion and related problems

• Power plants safety and risk analysis including nuclear

• Renewable energy sources in mide and micro CHP

• Zero emission technology: Carbon capture and storage, oxyfuel

• New technologies in power generation (fuel cells, hydrogen technologies)

• Environmental protection

• Oxygen separation technology

• Numerical analysis and optimization of main units of power plants as boiler (for CFB - erosion of superheaters in intrex)

Wroclaw University of Technology partners in

energy related problems research and

development

• Polish biggest thermal power plants (PGE, PKE, Vatenffal, ENEA…)

• European power industry (EDF, RWE …); projects:Investigation on rate of

fireside corrossion and its Monitoring ; Combustion of low sulfur coal

with biomass in PC boiler

• International Organizations (ITER Cadarache, CERN Geneva, CO2NET);

projects:analysis and R&D concerning criogenic reactor ITER ;

Investigation thermal properties and start up up criogenic system LHC

acelerator

• Industrial manufacturers of power plants components (RAFAKO, TURBOCARE

…)

• Engineering and research companies (Poltegor, EDF-R&D)

• Universities :Stuttgart University IVD- prof. H. Schefknecht, prof. Klaus

Hein – R&D in power engineering, Athen University, prof. Emmanuel

Kakaras: EU projects: ICSS, UPSWING, DEBCO,…

• L’Energie Atomique CEA w Saclay – Francja

Main topics of projects and Research

in the field clean coal technology:

• Improving of power unit efficiency – „Predrying of brown coal and integration into power cycle”,

• Low emission technology – reduction of NOx by ozon generator,

• SO2- dry and wet methods- reactivation of spent solid sorbents , fire side corrosion

• Utilization of solid fuels – characterization of fuel, investigation of combustion and gasification kinetics , low emission combustion technology

• Combustion and co-combustion coal with solid and liquid biomass

• ISCC -Gasification of solid fuel with capture of CO2 by solid sorbents to produce H2

• Zero emission technology- oxy fuel , capture of CO2 by solid sorbenta and liquid

• New system of start up of the of PC boilers by plasma torch

Experience

Gasification of coal with CO2 capture by lime based sorbents

Regeneration> 1173 K

CO2

(flue gas)

Qreg

LEGS>10 bar > 973 K

CaO, Ash

CaSO4

CaO, CaCO3, C

CaS, CaSO4, Ash

Coal

CaCO3

Cement

SteamCO2

Raw Gas

HT - removalof solids requested!

Cement production

CCpower plant

Drying

solid purge

Qadd

Equipments

Characterisation of solid fuels, products of thermal utilization and capture and calcination (regeneration)

multicycles tests

Innovation topic In Situ Carbon Capture Storage as CO2Clatrate in LEGS H2 Production

Experience and potential

Gasification to hydrogen - capture CO2

FC-PEM tests

Experience and potential

Underground gasification of brown coal

Research UCG

Technological diagram of experimental installation of underground brown coal gasification

Synthesis gas and liquid fuel production according to Fisher-Tropsch technology (Linc Energy)

Technological diagram of experimental installation of underground brown coal

gasification

Test stand for browncoal gasification and products influence on surrounding geological

structures

• Costs forecasts of energy production from underground gasification

– according to American research -1,08-1,70 Euro/GJ

– according to Russian research- 0,85 Euro/GJ

• Prices are competitive in comparison with average costs of energy production from:

– natural gas: 2,0 do 5,0 Euro/GJ; hard coal: 1,5 do 1,8 Euro/GJ

– brown coal: 1,25 do 1,5 Euro/GJ

Experience and potential

Research

Set up for oxy-fuel combustion tests

Experience and potential

Research and innovation

International cooperation projects

Experience and potential

Research and innovation

Polish projects co-operation with power industry: PGE Turów, Bełchatow,

Dolna Odra,PP KOZIENICE, CHP Kogeneracja

Experience and potential

Education

Courses on I stage of education

Advanced Power Technology generation

Basics of Machine Design

Basics of Thermodynamics

Basics of Automation

Combustion and Fuels

Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics

Refrigeration and Cryogenics

Cryogenics and Gas Technologies in Power Engineering

Electrical Engineering Fundamentals Fundamentals of

Electronics

Heat Transfer

Energy Conversion

Energy efficiency

Nuclear Power Engineering

Courses on second stage of education

Renewable Sources of Energy

Mining and Power Engineering

Innovation conversion energy technology

The building of sustainable energy

Education objectives

Education and awareness– two conference and lecture halls

– computer rooms with access to the building monitoring system

– exhibition area

– exhibition on renewable energy and innovative trends in construction

– training and workshops aimed at companies, institutions and schools

– access to information: on the current heating and cooling loads of the facility, on the current energy sources at use for particular purposes, also about what happens to the produced heat waste

Didactics– students classes

– workshops, courses

– conferences

Experience and potential

Education - international cooperation

Co-organisation

The European Cryogenics Course 20085 –days sessions :

TU Dresden – Hydrogen cryogenics

Wroclaw University of Technology – Helium cryogenics

Trondheim University of Technology – Cryogenics of natural gas

31 students, 7 countries

International Summer School (Erasmus)

Reduction of CO2 Emission by implementation of

renewable resources in Central Europe regions

in the context of EU Energy Police

Co-operation:

Ostrawa University of Technology (Czech), Koszyce University of

Technology (Slovakia)

30 students from 3 countries, september 2009 – 2nd edition

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